Bill O'Reilly, the former Fox News talking head with a peculiar fondness for paying outrageous sums of money to settle sexual harassment allegations that he angrily swears are not even remotely meritorious, has had a rough go of things since being politely shown the door this past spring. His claim that no network employees ever complained about his behavior have been refuted by former network employees reading on the air from their complaints about his behavior, and he spends most of his waking hours saying utterly repulsive things on a podcast and hoping people will listen. (His web site, though, still continues the O'Reilly Factor's old "Word of the Day" tradition, which is nice. Today's word is "egregious," as in "Bill O'Reilly's alleged harassment of his female colleagues was egregious.")

According to the Hollywood Reporter, O'Reilly's flickering hopes for a dramatic media comeback grew longer still on Tuesday when his longtime representatives in television projects, United Talent Agency, announced that they would not renew their relationship with O'Reilly at the end of the year. On Thursday, his book agents at William Morris Entertainment followed suit. From the Reporter:

"We no longer represent Bill O'Reilly for future deals," WME said in a
statement. "It is our fiduciary responsibility to service the existing
deals we have under contract, but we will not be working with him
moving forward."

Fortunately for whatever mysterious segment of the American public craves the opportunity to buy more error-riddledbooks about the deaths of famous historical figures, this news is unlikely to signal the end of O'Reilly's authorial career. His personal spokesman assured THR that O'Reilly has already secured new representation, but that, just as I declined to tell my friends the name of my very-real Canadian girlfriend who I met at sixth grade summer camp, he would not identify the new agency at this time. And as odious as Bill O'Reilly and everything he stands for may be, this is probably for the best. After all, when you could at any moment have another multimillion-dollar settlement to pay out, it's important to have a steady source of income, just in case.